# Then there will no longer be pricking briers and painful thorns for the house of Israel from all those around them who despise them "Then there will no longer be people anywhere around the house of Israel who wound them like briers, hurt them like thorns, and despise them" # the house of Israel "the Israelites" or "the Israelite people group". See Ezekiel 3:1. # around them ... them ... they will know These words refer to the people of Israel.